1. A Political Ticket to Nowhere
(Newsletter)

...ht in prime time. As a brash young pilot descended from military officers, McCain found himself shot down by the North Vietnamese after arrogantly over-reaching during a flight. Suffering broken limbs...

2. One Hundred Years in Iraq?
(Newsletter)

...o dubiously claims the status of war hero because he was imprisoned and beaten after bombing civilian targets in North Vietnam 40 years ago, apparently wants other young men to have the chance to beco...

3. Five Facts About Afghanistan
(Opinions/op-ed)

...nam, the United States gradually escalated to more than a half million troops, but this was not enough to beat a North Vietnamese/Viet Cong force of only 100,000. The bad news is that Vietnam was a mu...

4. Empathy for ‘Adversaries’
(Opinions/Politic)

... country. The United States found that out during Vietnam, but hasn’t seemed to retain the lesson very well. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were outnumbered 5 to 1 by the Americans alone (excludin...

5. McNamara and LBJ: Crooks, Liars, Murderers, and Thieves
(Opinions/Politic)

...r of men” wasn’t perfect. Throughout his tenure as president, LBJ was convinced that he would be able to buy off North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh with generous offers of U.S. foreign aid (i.e., wel...

6. The War on Terrorism Began in Vietnam
(Opinions/Politic)

...Time also forgot to mention that the South Vietnamese government had violated the 1954 Geneva Accords committing North Vietnam and South Vietnam to nationwide elections that would unify the country. ...

7. Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's 'Rules of Disengagement'
(Opinions/Review)

...o the Japanese were called "Japs" and portrayed in cartoons as apes or savage gorillas; North Koreans, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were called "gooks;" and Arabs are called&nbsp...

8. Obama's foreign policy realism
(Opinions/Politic)

... of bad behavior, however, would be a mistake. The realism of Henry Kissinger gave us American carpet-bombing of North Vietnam and active U.S. assistance to the brutal Argentine government to commit h...

9. Report: McCain Suppressed Info on POWs
(Opinions/Daily)

...t would monitor motion, which meant soldiers up and down the Ho Chi Minh Trail bringing supplies to the war from North Vietnam. But it also had another function. Soldiers, airmen were trained in how t...

10. Vote Like Mike
(Opinions/Review)

...make the ultimate sacrifice in the defense of our nation. And for that, he was tortured and then imprisoned in a North Vietnamese POW camp for nearly five-and-a-half years." While Moore contradic...